A tryal of witches /
"East Anglia, 1645. A hot and stifling summer. The air is thick with paranoia and superstition. Matthew Hopkins, the self-appointed Witchfinder General, travels from village to village telling all who will listen about the power of the devil and the prevalence of witches. The villagers have alw...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Methuen Drama,
2025.
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| Series: | Methuen modern plays.
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| Summary: | "East Anglia, 1645. A hot and stifling summer. The air is thick with paranoia and superstition. Matthew Hopkins, the self-appointed Witchfinder General, travels from village to village telling all who will listen about the power of the devil and the prevalence of witches. The villagers have always gone to wise woman Anne Alderman for help in illness and childbirth. She helps Mary conceive and the alewife Rose goes to her to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. But when a child accuses Anne of being a wtich, the villagers become wary. The Civil War continues, the crops fail and then a man drops dead in the alehouse. A moral panic sets in, everyone needs somebody to blame. A Tryal of Witches asks what led to one of the most shocking witch trials in British history. The trial in Bury St Edmunds was the first time women were convicted using 'spectral evidence' -- the belief that witches could be in two places at one time"--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 101 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781350562295 1350562297 |